e-Learning Glossary

The platform where your courses live: it manages users, content, assessments, and reports. Moodle is the most widely used open-source LMS in the world; commercial platforms charge per user. Which one fits depends on your scale — we break it down on the blog.

The standards that let a course 'talk' to any platform: SCORM records progress and scores inside the LMS; xAPI goes further and records learning experiences even outside of it. If your content is not SCORM/xAPI, you are locked into your current platform.

Gamification: game mechanics (points, levels, rewards) applied to learning. Microlearning: content in 3-7 minute pieces that respect the real workday. DC-3: the official skills certificate required by Mexico's STPS labor authority — one your platform should issue on its own.